Crime Statistics for Bretton, Peterborough, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bretton in September 2024. There were a total of 404 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bretton, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	154
Anti Social Behaviour	72
Public Order	38
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Vehicle Crime	24
Drugs	18
Shoplifting	18
Other Crime	14
Burglary	10
Other Theft	6
Robbery	6
Bicycle Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	404

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bretton. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bretton

We've taken the ten nearest places to Bretton and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Bretton has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Millfield (1.24 miles)	1431
Paston (2.24 miles)	781
New Fletton (2.63 miles)	698
Fengate (2.77 miles)	658
New England (1.39 miles)	609
Bretton	382
Walton (1.39 miles)	339
Ravensthorpe	212
Longthorpe (1.24 miles)	72
Marholm (1.75 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Bretton?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bretton and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Millfield	485
New Fletton	460
Paston	292
Fengate	208
New England	196
Bretton	154
Walton	100
Ravensthorpe	87
Longthorpe	28
Marholm	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bretton?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Bretton to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Bretton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bretton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bretton is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	North	86
2	Bretton	85
3	Central	82
4	Orton Longueville	82
5	Park	79
6	Paston and Walton	78
7	Ravensthorpe	77
8	Fletton and Woodston	68
9	West	53
10	Glinton and Castor	48
11	Werrington	32

Which road in Bretton has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bretton with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Westhawe.